The Italian refuge: rescue of Jews during the Holocaust

This book is perhaps the first to describe the active involvement of the individual Italians, the government and the military in saving the lives of many of the Jews of Italy, Yugoslavia, and the German-occupied south of France in 1942 and 1943.

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Seite 60If his declaration of war on the Jews was not the result of his rapprochement with
Berlin, why did he enact the racial laws at the very moment when he was
proclaiming his "total" solidarity with Hitler? Moreover, if Fascist racial doctrine
did not ...

Seite 62In 1938, Mussolini, stung to the quick by the pope's taunt that he was imitating
Germany, had been anxious to demonstrate the originality of his racial legislation
. Five years later, however, faced with the utter bankruptcy of his pro-German ...

Seite 145Not until passage of the racial laws in 1938, which stripped foreign Jews of the
right to work, did their social situation become unmanageable. But one should
not take this liberal attitude on the part of the Italian government as
humanitarianism.